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...killing entrepreneurship by setting both rates at 28%. (A quirk in the law kept the effective top rate at 33%.) But since 1992, as the chart on the previous page shows, income and capital gains rates have followed very different paths. One inadvertent result has been a pronounced tax bias in favor of private-equity partnerships and against traditional corporations. It's a bias that Stephen Schwarzman has taken great advantage of over the past 15 years. Now he may just have helped end it. THE BIG TAX GAP The growing disparity between capital gains and income tax rates...
Companies like Circuit City say binding arbitration is faster and cheaper than going to court, though studies have cast doubt on both claims. What really bugs employees are the rights they lose in arbitration--and the apparent bias of arbitrators. There are strict limits on gathering evidence for arbitration hearings, and it is virtually impossible to appeal them. Arbitrators don't necessarily have to follow the law, and studies suggest they favor companies that regularly hire them. Still, the courts generally uphold arbitration clauses unless a law makes absolutely clear that the employee can go to court, arbitration be damned...
Hoxby disputed Rothstein's findings, calling the criticisms baseless and suggesting that they were motivated by "race and gender bias...
...longer sentences than whites for the same crimes, that black applicants for home and auto loans receive higher interest rates than whites with the same financial credentials, that white basketball referees are more likely to call a foul on a black player than a white player, and that their bias exceeds that of black referees...
...many will deny that racial bias occurs in progressive communities like Harvard or that it could happen when the perpetrators consider themselves modern and educated beyond the brutality often implied by charges of “racism” and “racial profiling.” Moreover, some Harvard students fear that the charge, when permanently documented in reply to their suspicious e-mails about the black picnickers, could damage their professional and political futures...